Op 4-11-2011 2:25, Jack schreef: > Re: the rest of your comments, I agree, SSD/FLASH/"whatever" hard > disk replacements have their advantages, but at present, the cost > of REGULAR hard disks makes SSDs a "niche" market only. Perhaps > if SSD costs drop (a LOT!), and most such "reliability" issues go > away (COMPLETELY!), they may replace most traditional hard-disks. > But, Seagate "et al" keep making their drives cost less, too, and > so I expect to "live out MY life" [age 66 now] using a HARD disk!
I wonder if SSDs will go reasonably mainstream now since harddisk prices have nearly doubled and OEM vendors will run out of stock in a month or so. Requires consumers to look beyond capacity only ofcourse. Most systems are still sold with harddisks as the systems need to be cheap to appeal as a low cost device to most consumers. The enthousiast public seems to use a single SSD nowadays (for operating system and other programs benefitting from very low access times) combined with 1 or multiple harddisks for the usual (media) storage needs. A niche indeed, for now (and having multiple SSDs gets bloody expensive). I'm not entirely sure about reliability. Backups of data are a necessity anyways, and if not doing so, apparently replacing one defective disk by a fresh good/new one isn't an issue either. Harddisks are more of a commodity though, and more affordable. I just hope future systems can still run DOS (despite UEFI replacing BIOS with the fear of only being able to run Windows due to Secure Boot), including booting from USB3 at its full speed so a fast USB3 flash disk can have its (4GB?) content copied to system memory in a few seconds. 4GB RAM limit in DOS or not, I wonder if the MEMDISK feature of Syslinux can load 4+ GB (harddisk) images to system memory. But that's kinda offtopic hehe. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
